- AMD RX 9070 GPUs have experienced spills around their possible specifications and performance levels
- In terms of power, the RX 9070 XT looks a little more faced than expected, but the Vanilla 9070 is launched at a more comfortable level
- The benchmarks paint a more trembling performance table than previous leaks – but there are good reasons not to worry here, fortunately
AMD RX 9070 GPUs will soon be officially revealed – in a week, there is a major press event dedicated to these cards – but before that, we have just been treated with alleged disclosed specifications and disclose references.
In terms of specifications, Videocardz comes with news that Hoang Anh Phu, a regular leak on X, published some details on the RX 9070 models (although this message has since been deleted).
The salt firmly hugged by hand, we can therefore consider the revelations apparently made in a recent AMD press briefing.
We are told that the RX 9070 XT will operate with 64 calculation units (4,096 flow processors) and a boost clock of 2970 MHz, all as indicated above, with a power use (TBP or total power of the card) 304W.
As for the RX 9070 vanilla, which supposedly has 56 calculation units (3,584 flow processors) and a boost clock of 2520 MHz, with an energy consumption of 220W.
Meanwhile, these two incoming RDNA 4 graphics cards of AMD had a leak of landmarks, which gives us an approximate idea of the place where their performance can lie (collect even more salt here, however).
The WCCFTECH noticed the benchmarks highlighted by Benchleaks (on X) which show that the RX 9070 XT obtained 179,178 in the geekbench and 177,395 points in Vulkan’s OpenCl test (the two are graphic tests).
[GB6 GPU] GPUCPU Unknown: AMD RYZEN 7 9800X3D (8C 16T) CPUID: B40F40 (Authenticamd) GPU: RADEON RX 9070 XTAPI: OPEN CLSCORE: 179178PCI-ID: 1002: 7550VRAM: 15.9 GBHTTPFebruary 21, 2025
In these same tests, the GPU Vanilla RX 9070 managed to reach 140,842 points in Opencl, while it reached 158,520 in Vulkan.
These are only numbers, obviously, and useful only if we compare them to the existing results for other GPUs, as does WCCFTECH. The technological site noted that the RX 9070 XT is approximately 6% faster than the RX 7900 XT in OpenCL, and a slower touch (4% reduction on the pace) in Vulkan compared to this same current graphics card.
The RX 9070 (non-XT), on the other hand, is almost even with the 7800 XT in Opencl and about 6% slower than this GPU in the Vulkan test (where it is only a little faster that the 7700 XT, in fact).
Analysis: reasons to be doubtful (and cheerful)
At this point, you may think: Huh, were these GPUs of DNR 4 not supposed to be faster than that on previous rumors? Well, yes, they were. In fact, past chattering suggested that AMD was aimed at ensuring that the RX 9070 XT is slightly faster than the RTX 4080 (Founders Edition Model of Nvidia).
Now, if the RX 9070 XT is not much faster than the RX 7900 XT as indicated here, that the AMD GPU with current generation is considerably out of the rhythm of a RTX 4080 vanilla, so this last leak is disappointing compared to To what we were ready to expect.
However, it’s only a few Greekbench, and as I always say when it comes to assessing game graphics cards, this is not the best way to judge performance. The synthetic references are not complete ideal, and Geekbench is low on the scale of these measurements to start.
Other performance estimates disclosed (including 3Dmark results, and an overview of the 9070 vanilla bending its muscles Call of Duty: Black Ops 6) Suggest a more robust GPU than what we see here, that’s for sure. And AMD certainly puts expectations firmly on the table with its new denomination scheme – RTX 9070 models are clearly intended to adapt to NVIDIA RTX 5070 offers.
So, in short, I would not really worry about these fresh references, and I would be surprised if they were not ultimately proven.
The figures for energy consumption are certainly interesting. Previously, we have seen suggestions that the RX 9070 XT could require up to 330 W of energy, although it is for high -end boards, with entry -level graphics cards (and reference) which should present yourself at 260W. This leak claiming 304W for the reference table is a little higher than expected, so (although the high -end GPUs become very heavy with power is something that has already been supposed, and not really a surprise, of course) .
The RX 9070, on the other hand, seems to be in a theoretically much more comfortable place for many playing PCs, being assessed at 220W.
All these rumors will be eliminated early enough, because as indicated, the official launch event of AMD is now imminent, where we will discover the missing part of high size of the new generation Radeon puzzle – these PDSF.
Because after all, whatever the performance compared to new NVIDIA mid-range graphics cards, the right price can always make DNA 4 a powerful rival, or perhaps even a force to impress Blackwell. (Okay, so the latter is undoubtedly a pile wish, but go AMD – Let’s have a surprise of pricing of a good nature in the world of the GPU for once, huh?).
